SomeFacts | July 25

On this day - July 25

306 — Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.

315 — The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome ...

677 — Climax of the Siege of Thessalonica by the Slavs in a three-day ...

864 — The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive ...

918 — Wang Geon becomes King of Goryeo after overthrowing Gung Ye in ...

1137 — Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Prince Louis, later King Louis ...

1139 — Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are ...

1261 — The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces ...

1278 — The naval Battle of Algeciras takes place in the context of ...

1467 — The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which ...

1536 — Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the ...

1538 — The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador ...

1547 — Henry II of France is crowned.

1554 — The royal wedding of Mary I and Philip II of Spain celebrated ...

1567 — Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de ...

1591 — The Duke of Parma is defeated near the Dutch city of Nijmegen ...

1593 — Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to ...

1603 — James VI and I and Anne of Denmark are crowned in Westminster ...

1609 — The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is ...

1668 — A magnitude 8.5 earthquake strikes eastern China, killing over ...

1693 — Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now ...

1718 — At the behest of Tsar Peter the Great, the construction of ...

1722 — Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.

1755 — British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council ...

1759 — French and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces ...

1783 — American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the ...

1788 — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G ...

1792 — The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris ...

1797 — Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm ...

1799 — Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a numerically superior Ottoman army ...

1814 — War of 1812: An American attack on Canada is repulsed.

1824 — Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.

1835 — James Bowman Lindsay demonstrates a constant electric light at ...

1837 — The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is ...

1853 — Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as the ...

1861 — American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the ...

1866 — The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the ...

1868 — The Wyoming Territory is established.

1869 — The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to ...

1894 — The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon ...

1897 — American author Jack London embarks on a sailing trip to take ...

1898 — Spanish–American War: The American invasion of Spanish-held ...

1908 — Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial ...

1909 — Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English ...

1915 — RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit ...

1917 — Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as ...

1925 — Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.

1934 — The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss ...

1940 — General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German ...

1942 — The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the ...

1943 — World War II: 136 Greek civilians are murdered by soldiers of ...

1943 — World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the ...

1944 — World War II: Operation Spring near Caen is one of the ...

1946 — The Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear ...

1956 — Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean ...

1957 — The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by ...

1958 — The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in ...

1961 — Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any ...

1965 — Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, ...

1969 — Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon ...

1971 — The Sohagpur massacre is perpetrated by the Pakistan Army.

1973 — Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.

1976 — Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.

1978 — Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born ...

1978 — Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro ...

1979 — In accord with the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, Israel begins ...

1983 — Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the ...

1984 — Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman ...

1993 — The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape ...

1993 — Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the ...

1994 — Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that ...

1995 — A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the ...

1996 — In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre ...

2000 — Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris ...

2001 — Phoolan Devi, a serving Member of Parliament, was assassinated ...

2007 — Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female ...

2010 — WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in ...

2018 — As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.

2019 — National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, ...